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Re: Debian is not welcome on Microsoft Azure



Dmitry Smirnov dijo [Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 01:41:40PM +1000]:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm struggling to convince a client of mine to use Debian. They already had 
> enough troubles with RHEL/CentOS to they are open to the idea -- that's a 
> good thing. The bad thing is that they want to use Microsoft Azure (please 
> don't ask me why people in the right mind would ever consider using 
> proprietary cloud from one of the most unethical companies ever known in the 
> IT industry).
> 
> I found it very disappointing that I had to defend Debian against Ubuntu  
> which is stealing our audience by somehow arranging more favourable hosting 
> conditions on Azure. I'm not talking about availability of OS images. 
> According to "Information for Non-Endorsed Distributions" [1] 
> 
>     "The Azure platform SLA applies to virtual machines running the Linux OS
>      only when one of the endorsed distributions [2] is used".
> (...)

Hi,

I'm bringing this discussion to José Miguel Parrella "bureado", who
besides being a Debian Developer works as "Open Source Strategist for
Emerging Markets in Latin America" in Microsoft. I know there have
been many interesting answers to your question, but I'm sure he will
have some further insight.

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